Carsten Curator
β Theodor Storm
π Fiction
π
2009
π TUX
π UND
β 80 KB
β¦ LIBER β¦
The Curator
β Scribed by Jacques Strauss
- Publisher
- Random House;Vintage
- Year
- 2015;2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 152 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Longlisted for the 2015 Green Carnation Prize
It's not possible to undo what happened in 1976.
In rural South Africa a family massacre takes place; a bloodbath whose only witness is the family's black maid. Hendrik Deyer is the principal of a state-run school camp who lives nearby with his wife and their two sons, Werner and Marius. As Hendrik becomes obsessed with uncovering what happened, his wife worries about her neighbours, a poor white family whose malign influence on her son Werner is - she believes - making his behaviour inexplicably strange and hostile. One night another tragedy changes each of their lives, irrevocably.
Two decades later, Werner is living with his mother and invalid father in a small Pretoria flat. South Africa is a changed place. Werner holds a tedious job in the administration department of the local university and dreams of owning his own gallery. His father is bedridden, hovering on the edge of death, and...
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